Improvement in horseshoes



T. SKELTON.

HORSESHOES- No. 195,410, Patented Sept.18,1877.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSESHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 195,4), dated September 18, 1877; application filed February 5, 1877.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS SKELToN, of the city of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of W vented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes and I do hereby declare that sisted by the peculiar adjustment of the parts, the screw serving principally to keep the parts together. The heel-calks I are attached to the shoe by inserting the tenon J into skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to furnish a horseshoe the calks of which may be removed when they become dull or worn, and

directly in contact with the calks, they being on the same plane with the upper side of the shoe.

The calks, when Worn, may be readily removed and replaced by new ones by acommon laborer, without detaching the shoefrom the hoof, by drawing the screw G.

For practical purposes I prefer to make the shoe by castin then make it malleable by the ordinary annealing process.

The calks I make of ordinary cast-steel. I

make no claim, however, to the kind of metal used.

Having thus described my invention, what I encetotheaccompanyingdrawings, of whichclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patigure 1 is a perspective view of the shoe out, is-

with calks'adjusted ready for use. Fig. 2 rep- 1. The shoe A, having bearings 11 b, doveresents a perspective view of the shoe with tail mortise H, mortise m m, tenon J, and

calks remove screw-hole F, substantially as shown and de- A is the toe-calk of the shoe, which is atscribed.

tached to the shoe A by means of lip 0 and 2. Toe-calks A, having dovetail lip or tenon dovetail tenon D, which is closely fitted to D, screw-hole F, mortise B, and lip 0, subthe dovetail mortise H, through which tenon stantially as shown and described.

there is ascreW-hole, F, for the screw G. The 3. Heel-calks I, having mortise K, lip or hole F is countersunk deep enough to accomtenon L, and screw-hole F, substantially as modate about one-half the head of the screw shown and described.

he countersink, fitting closely to the cor- 4. The combination of the shoe A, calks A, ners of the screw-head, tends to prevent. the and calks I, secured by screws G, all substanscrew from turning and becoming loose. All tially as shown and described.

A is resisted by the In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' THOMAS SKELTON.

t e other bythe 11p 0 and tenon D-by Whlch the Witnesses calk is clamped firmly above and beneath the K. SHAWVAN, shoe, by which arrangement all the strain is re- J. ERWIN. 

